We’re READY to announce the Resident’s Choices!

We’ve been rehearsing and building and polishing up the bannisters in eager preparation for this year’s Avi Choice Awards ~ the Arts! Tickets were sold out within 36 hours of going on sale. Thank you all for your enthusiasm and support. Ready for an exciting announcement? Cold Media will be Live Streaming coverage of the Avi Choice Awards on Saturday, Feb 28th at 1pm SLT. So, if you didn’t get a ticket you can still see it! You can watch it online at: http://www.livestream.com/coldmedia

Thank you to Cold Jupiter for making it possible for us to have Live Streaming!

Please visit the sponsored by link at the top of our page and learn about this year’s ARTS fabulous sponsors. They’ve answered some interview style questions so our readers can get to know them better.

Check the poster above for details about the show on the 28th. Don’t forget that the sims will be opened to the public after the show (appr 3pm) for the After Party which will be hosted by Blake Hambleton, followed by Bad Ampitude who will present a Queen Tribute Concert. The Show Program with landmark to the Avi Choice sims will be available in our office for those who would like a copy.. just stop in and grab one! http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/White Sails/228/162/24

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SHOW TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

The Avi Choice Awards ~ the Arts Program will be held on February 28, 2015 at 1pm SLT. This years show will again be hosted byT1 Radio’s Trader Whiplash and Nuala Maracas. Presenting Avi Choices winners will be MaxPower and Shauna (Kelberry) Godric of Acoustic Cave Live Music Venue, for the first set of categories and Brett Bertolucci of Gorean Whip Radio and theRose resident of Q&Q Theater Troupe, who are this year’s second set of esteemed presenters.

Performances at this year’s extravaganza include the wonderful artistry and creativity of The Elysium Cabaret, Damian Carbenell, The Pink Vampire, The Avi Choice Dancers and the Bad Ampitude Tribute Band. The program is brought to you by this year’s Avi Choice Awards Premiere Sponsors: Gorean Whip Radio, Sweethearts Jazz Club, The Original Blackhearts Rock Club, The Starlite Theater, Black Horse Country, Polyester, The River Rock Club and T1 Radio. The show will be broadcast online at http://tunein.com/radio/T1-Radio-s113797/ and simulcast on Gorean Whip radio at http://tunein.com/radio/The-Gorean-Whip-Radio-s127570/

Audience seating will be limited to accommodate approximately 80 audience attendees. Ticket prices will be 300L and seating location will be chosen by the ticket holder on a first come, first served basis. Tickets sell FAST, so get yours now!The Avi Choice Awards sims will be closed to the general public and ticket holders will have access to the region that the audience seating is on, at 10 am SLT on the 28th.
Gift bags will be available in the Variety Hall Lobby for audience members. Dress code at the Avi Choice Awards is black tie/formal. The Avi Choice sims will open to the public following the show and all are invited to the Awards After-Party, which is expected to begin at approximately 3pm SLT and will feature past Avi Choice Award recipients, Blake Hambleton of Sweethearts Jazz Club and the Bad Ampitude Tribute Band.

If you are interested in reserving tickets for the Show on Feb 28th, please complete the reservation form HERE!

AVI CHOICE AWARDS ~ the ARTS!

We are taking this opportunity to announce some of our Sponsors and Advertisers who have come aboard to bring the Avi Choice Awards show to Second Life for the February 28th presentation of some of the favorites in the Arts categories. We will be bringing individual focus to each of our Premiere sponsors over the next couple weeks when we present some information about each of them right here and in our office.

Thank you to the following who have joined us as this year’s PREMIERE SPONSOR for the Arts:

Advertisers for this year’s Avi Choice Awards – the Arts is Immortal Souls Nightclub and Mall, Kiki’s House of Burlesque, Lat Lovenkraft; The Artiste HUD, Kizmet Kidd: The TenderLove Animator and Stefan Buscaylet: LUMIPro. Advertising is still open, and again if you’re interested in learning how YOU can be an Avi Choice Advertiser, please click here or IM Nikki Mathieson or AviChoice resident, inworld.

We need Gift Bag sponsors!! Would you like to provide giftbags for our audience, cast, crew, nominees or Avi Choice winners? If so, let us know!! We offer a great compensation package to all our sponsors including the Gift Bag sponsors.. so IM Nikki Mathieson if you’d like to join the Avi Choice sponsor family!

The nominating opportunity has closed for the Avi Choice Awards – the Arts! We received MANY nominee forms and each form had 45 categories (with a nominee) on each of them. So, we’re busy, busy in the process to narrow down to the finalists. We have begun notifying nominees and will be continuing that process over the next few days. If you have not received word of nomination, don’t be sad.. we’re not finished yet! Thank you to those who have already IM’d, sharing excitement and happiness with us. It always makes us smile to hear that. We totally understand the honor of just being nominated in the first place. We are constantly reminded that our Second Life community is a wonderful and amazing group of individuals and it’s an honor to be a platform for residents to show appreciation, even in this way of honoring and nominating favorites. We use the word, ‘favorite’, carefully because there are MANY and no one could ever, solidly, claim a ‘best.’ THANK YOU for your acceptance of our mission to show off the THOUSANDS of people who make SL GREAT!

Remember that the voting begins on Feb 2nd for this year’s Avi Choice the Arts recipients!! The ONLY place to vote is right here at: AviChoiceAwards.com !!

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The Avi Choice Variety Hall was a stunning backdrop to a fabulous Awards show at the 2014 Avi Choice FASHION Awards! This beautiful structure was created entirely by Dextresis Dejavu of Digitize! Thank you, Dex!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR, Second Life! Avi Choice celebrated the FASHION Awards in December and had a fantastic time. The show was amazing, well attended and just so well done. THANK YOU to all who participated, volunteered, performed, nominated, voted and won. Especially thank you to our WONDERFUL sponsors for the Avi Choice FASHION Awards, the main sponsor, BOSL & Co, and our advertisers, Wild Orchid, Alter Ego, and G Inc. We also greatly appreciate the Gift Bag Sponsors for the Fashion Awards, Monentes Fine Jewelry, Lyrical Bizarre Templates and Wild Orchid. Finally, we are honored and so appreciative of those in the wonderful world of SL media who lend us a hand in promoting and announcing these awards. We are lucky to have them joining with us and send huge applause to: T1 Radio, AViewTV, BOSL & Co, Prim Perfect Magazine, Miss SL Organization, ModeLS Magazine, Gorean Whip Radio and Designing Worlds. The cast and crew also need to be acknowledged again before we move on to the next Awards series. Thank you to Rebel Yell Tribute Concert Performers, Trader Whiplash, Nuala Maracas, Saffia Widdershins, Elrik Merlin, HammerFLA Magic, the Spirit Light Dance Company, Chillee Hernandoz, Frolic Mills, Sofia Diage, Jill MacKenzie and the Avi Choice Dancers, along with additional crew members Jacob Williams, Roman Godde and Nikki Mathieson.

To see a list of all the finalist nominees and recipients of the 2014 Avi Choice FASHION Awards, click HERE and CONGRATULATIONS to all!!

We have sponsorship and advertising opportunities available for the Avi Choice Awards ~ the Arts. Please follow this link if you’d like to be one of our 2015 sponsors, advertisers, gift bag donors or one of our esteemed Media Partners. THANK YOU!

So, it’s time to get the next Awards series going.. the Avi Choice Awards ~ the Arts! Read below to see key dates for that Awards show and send an email to AviChoiceSL@gmail.com if you’re interested in volunteering to assist with some of the many duties we could use assistance for. We’re looking for blog writers, photographers, those who have skills with google docs and some mesh/build skills, if you’d like to volunteer.

IT’S TIME TO SUBMIT YOUR NOMINATIONS for the 2015 Avi Choice Awards ~ the Arts. The deadline for Avi Choice nominee submissions is Wednesday, January 28th at noon SLT. All nominations are subject to a final consolidating process and voting may be limited to those nominees who received at least three UNIQUE nominations for the category they’re nominated in. Those finalists will then be put up to vote on Monday, February 2nd. Voting WILL be limited to one vote per avatar/resident, per category. Avi Choice Awards ~ the Arts voting will close on Monday, February 23rd at 5pm SLT. Winners will be announced at the Avi Choice Awards Show on Feb. 28th. Vote count/results WILL be available to those who request them after February 28th, but recipients will need to agree (in email) not to publish the vote count/results on ANY media or social networking site or publication, inworld or out. We intend to respect the right of all nominees not to have those totals published but will produce them for those who request to see them.

REMEMBER: The nominations and voting results do not reflect the opinions/choices of Avi Choice Awards coordinators or staff members. These were nominated and voted on by website visitors and SL residents in hopes of giving their favorites some appreciation and recognition.. NOT for them to declare who is best. Staff of the Avi Choice Awards are not permitted to nominate or vote on Avi Choice Award candidates.

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Avi Choice Fashion Awards Program Information!

The Avi Choice Fashion Awards Program will be held on December 13, 2014 at 2pm SLT. This years show will again be hosted by T1 Radio’s Trader Whiplash and Nuala Maracas. Presenting Avi Choices this year will be Saffia Widdershins and Elrik Merlin of TREET TV’s Designing Worlds, returning to the Avi’s for their FOURTH season! New to the Avi Choice stage will be Sofia Diage and Frolic Mills who are this year’s second set of esteemed presenters. Performances at this years extravaganza include the wonderful artistry and creativity of Rebel Yell Concerts, the Spirit Light Dance Company and the Avi Choice Dancers with the ReAct Christmas Tree. Joining them will be live performances from HammerFla Magic and Chillee Hernandoz. The program is brought to you by this year’s Avi Choice Fashion Awards main sponsor BOSL & CO. This year’s show will be another stunning example of the talent and brilliance available across our amazing Second Life grid.

AviewTV will again be simulcast streaming the entire show and will be bringing back to the Avi’s the viewing HUD for audience members, as well. Thank you to Lapiscean Liberty, Secret Rage, Emmo Wei and Petlove Petshop for the amazing work they do with telestreaming the Avi Choice Awards. What they’ve added to the Avi’s is class and completion, style and polish. Thank you, thank you for your support of the Avi Choice projects, it’s an absolute honor to work with such a talented and skilled group of professionals. Please visit the website at http://aviewtv.com/.

The new Avi Choice Variety Hall is nearing completion and an exciting new build will be the scene for this year’s festivities. The structure is being created for us by Dextresis Dejavu of Digitize and will be a mesh structure with lots of wonderful details. Dextresis has been hard at work and spending lots of time on this.. she is excited for the opportunity and inspired by the event that honors and applauds some of Second Life’s favorites. Located on the border of two sims, this huge structure is a magnificent place to hold such a prestigious event. Dex is also designing the new Avi Choice trophy in a lower prim mesh and we’ll be presenting that at a later time. Thank you, Dex for all your hard work and dedication to Avi Choice, it is greatly appreciated.

Audience seating will be limited to accommodate approximately 80 audience attendees and tickets are expected to be on sale beginning Dec 3 and will close December 11th or when they’re sold out, whichever comes first. Ticket prices will be 300L and seating location will be chosen by the ticket holder on a first come, first served basis. The Avi Choice Holidays sims will be closed to the general public at 8 am on the 13th and ticket holders will have access to the region that the audience seating is on, at 10 am SLT.

Gift bags will be available in the Variety Hall Lobby for audience members. The gift bag will be assembled and distributed by Monentes. Gift bags for the cast and crew of the Avi Choice Fashion Awards is being assembled and distributed by Wild Orchid Haute Couture and the nominee finalists will receive a gift bag from Lyrical Bizarre Templates. Thank you to each of these Gift Bag Sponsors!

Dress code at the Avi Choice Awards is black tie/formal. The Avi Choice Holidays sims will reopen to the public following the show and all are invited to the Awards after-party, which is expected to begin at approximately 4:30pm SLT. Announcements will follow about this year’s after party entertainment soon.

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Avi Choice Fashion Awards Sponsor Announced!

It is a pleasure and an honor to announce the 2014 Avi Choice Fashion Awards Sponsor; BOSL & CO! Thank you to BOSL for the support of the Avi Choice Fashion Awards and for all the service they provide to the Second Life fashion community, in general. Other advertisers and endorsements as well as media partner are signing up for this special event, and we’ll announce them soon. There are still advertising opportunities available and you can learn more by visiting this link.

We’re thrilled to have the Avi Choice Fashion Awards being brought to you by our main sponsor, BOSL & CO. and send our hearty applause and appreciation. Cheers to BOSL and Co and thank you! Here’s a bit more about BOSL!

Started in 2008, this media giant has grown from a single fashion magazine to include the following companies:

– BOSL Magazine – Started in 2008, this magazine was and still has a major focus on SL fashion. But today that is all changing and becoming more of a SL lifestyle magazine with feature stories covering all of SL and not just fashion.

– Miss and Mister Virtual World Competitions – Since 2008 BOSL is home to two of the most important modeling competitions in SL

– Miss and Mister Virtual World Academy – offering a full spectrum of training necessary for men and women to enter into a successful fashion modeling career in SL. The MISS VIRTUAL WORLD Modeling Academy has, for years, been educating and graduating some of the most recognized models in SL Fashion.

– BLVD Fashion House – This modeling agency is one of the longest operating and features some of SL fashion’s Top Models.

– BOSL Retail – THE BEST OF SL BOULEVARD & THE RENAISSANCE GALLERIA. Ever want to own a store on one of the BOSL sims? Now you can! Many benefits and features
are available and you can contact Trinity Graves for more information! All of your wedding needs are met at Renaissance Galleria, so you can relax and enjoy your special day!

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Nominee Finalist Notifications are Underway!

Since closing the nominations last Thursday, we’ve had a group of wonderful people processing the thousands of nominations we received. We received a little more than a thousand (unique) nominee forms and each form had up to 45 categories (with a nominee) on each of them. So, we’re busy, busy in the process to narrow down to the finalists. We began to notify nominee finalists, last night that they have been nominated. We’ve got a ways to go to finish our notifications, though and will be continuing that process over the next few days. If you have not received word of nomination, don’t be sad.. we’re not finished yet! Thank you to those who have already IM’d, sharing excitement and happiness with us. It always makes us smile to hear that. We totally understand the honor of just being nominated in the first place.

We will display a list of all nominees, nominee finalists and Avi Choice recipients on the website, sometime after the votes open (on the 20th), so that all can see who received the honor of being nominated, at all.. let alone make it to the final vote. We are constantly reminded of why our Second Life community is so wonderful and amazing and it’s an honor to be a platform for residents to show appreciation, even in this way of honoring and nominating favorites. We use the word, ‘favorite’, carefully because there are MANY and no one could ever, solidly, claim a ‘best.’ THANK YOU for your acceptance of our mission to show off the THOUSANDS of people who make SL GREAT!

We got to feel that sense of excitement even more when our own Roman Godde, Tadeu Gartner and Avi Choice, itself received nominations. YAY and THANK YOU! We, of course, decline to go further in the process because Avi Choice and it’s staff are not eligible nor are they permitted to nominate or vote. From the bottom of our hearts.. thank you. And even if we don’t vote, you can be sure we are absolutely CHEERING! We’re proud of you, Second Life! It’s a lot of work producing this Avi Choice opportunity, but we’re honored to do it.. the pleasure is ours!

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AC’s Fashion Awards Nominating Period Has Ended!

The nominating period for the Avi Choice Fashion Awards has expired and we received more than a thousand unique nominating forms! An expert panel, assembled to verify accuracy and ensure that the nominees fit within each category have begun that monumental task.

Nominations may be subject to elimination if they have received fewer than three UNIQUE nominations, are no longer (actively) in operation or have informed us that they do not want to participate. Voting on the finalists will begin on Thursday, November 20th. Voting WILL be limited to one vote per avatar/resident, per category, as has been done in past seasons.

Avi Choice Fashion Awards voting will close on Monday, December 8th at 3pm SLT. Winners will be announced at the Avi Choice Fashion Awards Show on Dec. 13th at 2pm. The show will be held during Avi Choice Celebrates the HOLIDAYS, a two-sim Second Life event produced by AviChoice.com. Visit that website for more information about the event.

Vote count/results WILL be available to those who request them after December 14th. Before we release them, the recipient must agree (in email) not to publish the vote count/results on ANY media or social networking site or publication, inworld or out.

Thank you for your excitement and participation as we near the 4th Annual Avi Choice Awards program!

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Avi Choice is ready to Celebrate the HOLIDAYS!

We’re decorating 2 sims and filling them with some of SL’s FAVORITE designers and merchants plus the highly anticipated annual Avi Choice Fashion Awards! We are planning to add some NEW events to the 17 day Festival, as well and are sure that they will join the Avi Choice Awards in becoming annual happenings eagerly anticipated as the Holidays approach Second Life.

Would you like to set up shop in the Avi Choice Holidays Celebration? Excellent! Our doors are open until we’re full to capacity. Stores are NOT limited to fashion only.. we welcome all. Please read through the Participation Guidelines before registering. Registrations are on a first come, first served basis so register NOW to avoid being left out! This Festival does not have specific sales requirements in order to participate, although you WILL have opportunity to remember various charities during the Holiday event. Specific participation requirements though are easy and few.. we require Merchants to set out (in front of their store) one item (of your choice) for Naughty or Nice Giftings, which our Holiday Visitors can enjoy. We also request that Merchants participate in the Holiday’s Hunt which will be organized by our fabulous Huntress, Earth Nirvana.

FOLLOW THIS LINK to register for your store and join us as Avi Choice Celebrates the HOLIDAYS!